History log of /linux-master/arch/x86/kernel/itmt.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 83e291d3 02-Oct-2023 Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>

arch/x86: Remove now superfluous sentinel elem from ctl_table arrays

This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel element from sld_sysctl and itmt_kern_table. This
removal is safe because register_sysctl_init and register_sysctl
implicitly use the array size in addition to checking for the sentinel.

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> # for x86
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>


# 046a5a95 06-Apr-2023 Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>

x86/sched/itmt: Give all SMT siblings of a core the same priority

X86 does not have the SD_ASYM_PACKING flag in the SMT domain. The scheduler
knows how to handle SMT and non-SMT cores of different priority. There is
no reason for SMT siblings of a core to have different priorities.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Tested-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230406203148.19182-12-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com


# 89d7971e 10-Mar-2023 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

x86: Simplify one-level sysctl registration for itmt_kern_table

There is no need to declare an extra tables to just create directory,
this can be easily be done with a prefix path with register_sysctl().

Simplify this registration.

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230310233248.3965389-3-mcgrof%40kernel.org


# 183b8ec3 10-Sep-2021 Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>

x86/sched: Decrease further the priorities of SMT siblings

When scheduling, it is better to prefer a separate physical core rather
than the SMT sibling of a high priority core. The existing formula to
compute priorities takes such fact in consideration. There may exist,
however, combinations of priorities (i.e., maximum frequencies) in which
the priority of high-numbered SMT siblings of high-priority cores collides
with the priority of low-numbered SMT siblings of low-priority cores.

Consider for instance an SMT2 system with CPUs [0, 1] with priority 60 and
[2, 3] with priority 30(CPUs in brackets are SMT siblings. In such a case,
the resulting priorities would be [120, 60], [60, 30]. Thus, to ensure
that CPU2 has higher priority than CPU1, divide the raw priority by the
squared SMT iterator. The resulting priorities are [120, 30]. [60, 15].

Originally-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210911011819.12184-2-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com


# 32927393 24-Apr-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.

As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# eec4844f 18-Jul-2019 Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>

proc/sysctl: add shared variables for range check

In the sysctl code the proc_dointvec_minmax() function is often used to
validate the user supplied value between an allowed range. This
function uses the extra1 and extra2 members from struct ctl_table as
minimum and maximum allowed value.

On sysctl handler declaration, in every source file there are some
readonly variables containing just an integer which address is assigned
to the extra1 and extra2 members, so the sysctl range is enforced.

The special values 0, 1 and INT_MAX are very often used as range
boundary, leading duplication of variables like zero=0, one=1,
int_max=INT_MAX in different source files:

$ git grep -E '\.extra[12].*&(zero|one|int_max)' |wc -l
248

Add a const int array containing the most commonly used values, some
macros to refer more easily to the correct array member, and use them
instead of creating a local one for every object file.

This is the bloat-o-meter output comparing the old and new binary
compiled with the default Fedora config:

# scripts/bloat-o-meter -d vmlinux.o.old vmlinux.o
add/remove: 2/2 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 24/-188 (-164)
Data old new delta
sysctl_vals - 12 +12
__kstrtab_sysctl_vals - 12 +12
max 14 10 -4
int_max 16 - -16
one 68 - -68
zero 128 28 -100
Total: Before=20583249, After=20583085, chg -0.00%

[mcroce@redhat.com: tipc: remove two unused variables]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530091952.4108-1-mcroce@redhat.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c]
[arnd@arndb.de: proc/sysctl: make firmware loader table conditional]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617130014.1713870-1-arnd@arndb.de
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/eventpoll.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190430180111.10688-1-mcroce@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b886d83c 01-Jun-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 441

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation version 2 of the license

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 315 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel <armijn@tjaldur.nl>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531190115.503150771@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 81bf665d 11-Dec-2017 Pravin Shedge <pravin.shedge4linux@gmail.com>

x86/headers: Remove duplicate #includes

These duplicate includes have been found with scripts/checkincludes.pl but
they have been removed manually to avoid removing false positives.

Signed-off-by: Pravin Shedge <pravin.shedge4linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: geert@linux-m68k.org
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513024951-9221-1-git-send-email-pravin.shedge4linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 02cfdc95 18-Jan-2017 Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>

sched/x86: Remove unnecessary TBM3 check to update topology

Scheduling to the max performance core is enabled by
default for Turbo Boost Maxt Technology 3.0 capable platforms.

Remove the useless sysctl_sched_itmt_enabled check to
update sched topology for adding the prioritized core scheduling
flag.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bp@suse.de
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484778629-4404-1-git-send-email-tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# a293b395 28-Nov-2016 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/sched: Use #include <linux/mutex.h> instead of #include <asm/mutex.h>

asm/mutex.h is gone from the locking tree, which makes sched/core break the build.

Use linux/mutex.h instead, which is the canonical method.

Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: bp@suse.de
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# f9793e34 22-Nov-2016 Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>

x86/sysctl: Add sysctl for ITMT scheduling feature

Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 (ITMT) feature
allows some cores to be boosted to higher turbo
frequency than others.

Add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_itmt_enabled so operator
can enable/disable scheduling of tasks that favor cores
with higher turbo boost frequency potential.

By default, system that is ITMT capable and single
socket has this feature turned on. It is more likely
to be lightly loaded and operates in Turbo range.

When there is a change in the ITMT scheduling operation
desired, a rebuild of the sched domain is initiated
so the scheduler can set up sched domains with appropriate
flag to enable/disable ITMT scheduling operations.

Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Co-developed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: bp@suse.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/07cc62426a28bad57b01ab16bb903a9c84fa5421.1479844244.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 5e76b2ab 22-Nov-2016 Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>

x86: Enable Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0

On platforms supporting Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, the maximum
turbo frequencies of some cores in a CPU package may be higher than for
the other cores in the same package. In that case, better performance
(and possibly lower energy consumption as well) can be achieved by
making the scheduler prefer to run tasks on the CPUs with higher max
turbo frequencies.

To that end, set up a core priority metric to abstract the core
preferences based on the maximum turbo frequency. In that metric,
the cores with higher maximum turbo frequencies are higher-priority
than the other cores in the same package and that causes the scheduler
to favor them when making load-balancing decisions using the asymmertic
packing approach. At the same time, the priority of SMT threads with a
higher CPU number is reduced so as to avoid scheduling tasks on all of
the threads that belong to a favored core before all of the other cores
have been given a task to run.

The priority metric will be initialized by the P-state driver with the
help of the sched_set_itmt_core_prio() function. The P-state driver
will also determine whether or not ITMT is supported by the platform
and will call sched_set_itmt_support() to indicate that.

Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Co-developed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: bp@suse.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cd401ccdff88f88c8349314febdc25d51f7c48f7.1479844244.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>